You can't do much without making serious changes but redesigning the bass scale so it's a bit less heavy at the top can also help a bit. I don't like added mass at the top of the bass break, it really needs a longer extension for added stiffness. I haven't tried it but wonder if a small extension attached on the underside of the bridge pushing that small little extension on the topside out a bit might not help the end of the bridge effect. If you are taking the plate out you can simply extend it from the topside but if not then the underside is all that's available. Attached is my current favorite modification for an added tenor bridge on a Steinway B (or others for that matter with low tenor problems). It shortens the speaking lengths enough to help with the new wound strings scaling, doesn't change the strike point that much, keeps the new bridge in somewhat the same proximity to the rim as the old, creates separation from the low bass. A bass float would be ok here too but I didn't do it on this one. You can see the extra extension off the top end of the bass bridge as well. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Al Guecia/AlliedPianoCraft Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2009 1:16 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] BB Mason and Tenor Cross over So, bottom line guys. The French piano maker Stephen Paulello "string with softer steel" isn't going to do much? I don't do any scale redesigning and thought this might be an easy fix :-( Al -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: P3170055.JPG Type: image/jpeg Size: 42459 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091220/005ca44c/attachment-0001.jpeg>
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